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Georg Solti

1912 - 1997

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Sir Georg Solti ( JORJ SHOL-tee, Hungarian: [ˈʃolti]; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Solti has received more than 1,509,381 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Georg Solti is the 13th most popular conductor, the 94th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 96th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Conductor.

Georg Solti is most famous for being the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969-1991. He is also most famous for his work with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Salzburg Festival.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Georg Solti ranks 13 out of 97. Before him are Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Sergiu Celibidache, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, and Bruno Walter. After him are Otto Klemperer, Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Masur, Rafael Kubelík, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Erich Kleiber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Georg Solti ranks 46. Before him are Glenn T. Seaborg, Lawrence Durrell, Sonja Henie, Otto Kretschmer, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, and Chien-Shiung Wu. After him are Princess Deokhye, Don Siegel, Elsa Morante, Taiichi Ohno, Tibor Sekelj, and Ghazi of Iraq. Among people deceased in 1997, Georg Solti ranks 47. Before him are Nikolai Tikhonov, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, John Kendrew, John Denver, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Charles Brenton Huggins. After him are Louis, Prince Napoléon, Cornelius Castoriadis, Bulat Okudzhava, Gerda Christian, Carl Gustav Hempel, and Stéphane Grappelli.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Georg Solti ranks 94 out of 866. Before him are Ladislaus II of Hungary (1131), Georg von Békésy (1899), Ferdinand Čatloš (1895), Kinga of Poland (1224), Ladislaus III of Hungary (1199), and George Andrew Olah (1927). After him are Felix Salten (1869), Saint Margaret of Scotland (1045), József Mindszenty (1892), Döme Sztójay (1883), Piali Pasha (1515), and Mihály Károlyi (1875).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Hungary

Among conductors born in Hungary, Georg Solti ranks 1. After him are Fritz Reiner (1888), George Szell (1897), Antal Doráti (1906), and Iván Fischer (1951).

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